Mauer v. Rubin

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that Illinois’s statute of repose “begins to run as soon as an event creating the malpractice occurs, regardless of whether any injury has yet resulted so as to cause an action to accrue”
• finding the harm to the plaintiff was done once the judgment of dissolution incorporating the allegedly defective marital settlement agreement was entered
• statute of repose begins to run as soon as the event creating the malpractice occurs
• activity on the part of the attorneys after defective agreement was entered did not compound the damage caused by the final judgment
• “We have held that as little as six months remaining in a statute of limitations period is ample time for a plaintiff to bring suit.” (internal quotations and citations omitted)
• “the statute of repose is not tolled merely by the continuance of the attorney-client relationship.” (citing Witt v. Jones & Jones Law Offices, P.C., 646 N.E.2d 23, 25 (Ill. App. Ct. 1995)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).